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Trump Indictment is 'Deep-State Assault' on Constitution and Rule of Law
Trump Indictment is 'Deep-State Assault' on Constitution and Rule of Law
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Donald Trump insists the two concurrent criminal prosecutions against him are designed to stop him challenging Joe Biden in the 2024 elections. Tyler Nixon said all Americans should worry about the implications for due process.
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The latest charges against former US president Donald Trump are an attack on legal due process and the constitution, a lawyer says.The former president attended his first court hearing on the charges in Miami on Tuesday. Later that day, Trump told a rally of supporters at his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey the indictment was "political persecution" and vowed to "totally obliterate the deep state" if re-elected in 2024. Attorney Tyler Nixon told Sputnik the prosecution of the former president was "a deep state assault on this very republic."But he said Department of Justice (DoJ) special counsel Jack Smith is leading the prosecution against Trump, was unconcerned about that.The lawyer also addressed the accusation against Trump of 'whataboutery' for asking why President Joe Biden has not been impeached and prosecuted for also keeping classified documents — from his time as vice-president to Barack Obama — in his private office and the garage of his Delaware home."'Whataboutism' does apply in the law when you're talking about selective prosecution and when you're talking about political persecution. And that's exactly what's going on here," he said. "I don't think anybody believes that this is just standard law enforcement."He said the leaks of photos from the FBI raid on Trump's Florida Mar-a-Lago mansion, showing boxes of White House documents in a bathroom, along with calls for court proceedings to be televised, were about creating a "media circus" around the trial.The army veteran also reiterated Trump's point that, as president, he had the power to declassify whatever state secrets he wished, comparing the indictment to "charging a homeowner with trying to rob his own house."For more in-depth analysis of current affairs, tune into our Sputnik Radio show The Final Countdown.
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Trump Indictment is 'Deep-State Assault' on Constitution and Rule of Law
Donald Trump insists the two concurrent criminal prosecutions against him are designed to stop him challenging Joe Biden in the 2024 elections. Army infantry veteran and counselor-at-law Tyler Nixon said all Americans should worry about the implications for due process.
The latest charges against former US president Donald Trump are an attack on legal due process and the constitution, a lawyer says.
The former president attended his first court hearing on the charges in Miami on Tuesday. Later that day, Trump told a
rally of supporters at his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey the indictment was "political persecution" and vowed to "totally obliterate the deep state" if re-elected in 2024.
Attorney
Tyler Nixon told
Sputnik the prosecution of the former president was "a deep state assault on this very republic."
But he said Department of Justice (DoJ) special counsel Jack Smith is leading the prosecution against Trump, was unconcerned about that.
"You have to have a conscience to have something on your conscience," Nixon said. "And Jack Smith is nothing but a mercenary, frankly, a partizan mercenary. And his previous attempts to bring similar prosecutions have been rebuffed by higher courts, and they're frankly outlandish."
The lawyer also addressed the accusation against Trump of 'whataboutery' for asking why President Joe Biden has not been impeached and prosecuted for also
keeping classified documents — from his time as vice-president to Barack Obama — in his private office and the garage of his Delaware home.
"'Whataboutism' does apply in the law when you're talking about selective prosecution and when you're talking about political persecution. And that's exactly what's going on here," he said. "I don't think anybody believes that this is just standard law enforcement."
"This is a joke. This is the most politicized and weaponized DoJ in American history," Nixon charged. "These prosecutions being brought are not only disgrace to the rule of law and to law, but they're absolutely an affront to the Constitution."
He said the leaks of photos from the
FBI raid on Trump's Florida Mar-a-Lago mansion, showing boxes of White House documents in a bathroom, along with calls for court proceedings to be televised, were about creating a "media circus" around the trial.
"That's exactly what the fascist Democrat Borg that's willing to just toss the Constitution aside and the rule of laws and frankly, equal protection to the laws aside" want to see, Nixon stressed.
The army veteran also reiterated Trump's point that, as president, he had the power to declassify whatever state secrets he wished, comparing the indictment to "charging a homeowner with trying to rob his own house."
"Any documents generated under President Trump's tenure, the authority with it as far as classification or any sort of access to that flows from that elected office," Nixon argued, "not from deep state operators and agencies in the intelligence community, so-called, who get to decide their super secret documents that even the president of the United States, elected by the American people, cannot have access to somehow."
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